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Hiking and Safety Tips for New Hikers

Views From The Top recommends that all hikers read and familiarize themselves with the hikeSafe web site before venturing into the back country. Remember that in NH, Fish and Game can and will charge you for some or all expense(s) incurred if you need to be rescued.

Should be interesting to see this area after the fire last fall. Remember being in Yellowstone in 1989 after the fires the Summer after seeing Nature at work. Note: Should be Dilly and not Dilley Cliff Trail.

Last edited by skiguy; 05-14-2018 at 08:30 PM.

"I'm getting up and going to work everyday and I am stoked. That does not suck!"__Shane McConkey

I'm sorry they had to close it but not surprised. When I hiked it in October 2014 one sign said it was "Closed" even then, but there was no barrier of any kind and a second sign said "Experts Only," so the first sign wasn't really serious. The majority of the Trail was an all-fours scramble, like this:

As for the name, both of those alternatives appeared, on different signs: